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CAMP OF 

Fourth and Sixth Brigades, Second Division 
United States Troops 

At Texas City, Texas, 1913 



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Copyrighted 1913 by 
J. M, MAURER, GALA ESTON 



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MOBILIZATION AT TEXAS CITY 1913 



ORDERS were issued on February 2-4, 1913, lor the immediate entrainment for Texas City ol the remainder of the entire Second 
Division of the reorganized army of the United States, which comprises three brigades of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, one 
regiment of field artillery, one battalion of engineers, one company signal corps, one field ambulance, one field hospital, one field 
bakery and an aviation squad, representing a theoretical strength of 18.000 men. but an actual strength of approximately 14.000 men 
The Fifth Brigade, a part of this division, had been ordered to Galveston on February 22nd. Under the orders issued from the 
War Department. Division Headquarters, the Fourth and Sixth Brigades of Infantry, the Fourth Field Artillery, the Sixth Cavalry; 
Companies G, H and M, Engineers; Field Hospital No. 3. Ambulance Company No. 3, twelve ovens of Field Bakery No. 2 and the 
aviation squadron were ordered to Texas City. 

The first troop train to arrive at Texas City carried one battery of the Fourth Field Artillery, under command of Colonel A. B. Dyer, 
from Fort D. A. Russell. Wyo. This train arrived February 27th and the soldiers went into camp on the site selected by Colonel S. D. 
Sturgis, who had been sent to Texas City from Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for the purpose of selecting camp sites. 

Major General William H. Carter, commanding the Second Division, accompanied by his staff, arrived at Texas City on the afternoon 
of February 27th and assumed command of the mobilization of his division. Headquarters were established in the office building of the Texas 
City Terminal Company, where they remained until the camp of the division was fully established, when the officers of the division went into 
the tented field with the men. 

Closely following the Fourth Field Artillery came the [other troop trains, and on March 3rd the last train carrying the last company of 
the Twenty-Sixth Infantry arrived, and the Second Division was complete. The two brigades encamped at Texas City are: Fourth Brigade, 
commanded by Brigadier General Ramsey D. Potts, and the Sixth Brigade, commanded by Brigadier General Clarence Edwards. Brigadier 
General Ramsey D. Potts was on sick leave when the orders for mobilization came and did not join his command for some time. During his 
absence his brigade was in command of Colonel Robert L. Bullard. ranking colonel of the command. These two brigades comprised six regi- 
ments, as follows; Fourth Brigade — Twenty-Third Infantry, commanded by Colonel Edwin F. Glenn, from Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind.; 
Twenty-Sixth Infantry, commanded by Colonel Robert L. Bullard, from Fort Wayne, Mich., and Fort Brady, Mich.; Twenty-Seventh Infantry, 
commanded by Colonel Robert N. Getty, from Fort Sheridan, 111. Sixth Brigade — Eleventh Infantry, commanded by Colonel Arthur Wil- 
liams, from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.; Eighteenth Infantry, commanded by Colonel Thomas F. Davis, from Fort McKenzie, Wyo., and Fort 
Missoula, Mont.; Twenty-Second Infantry, commanded by Colonel Daniel A. Frederick, from Fort Bliss, Texas. The Fourth Field Artillery 
is in command of Lieut. Colonel Lucien Berry, and came from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. The Sixth Cavalry was in command of Colonel 
Charles M. O'Connor, and came from Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Major Lytle Brown commanded the Battalion of Engineers, consisting of 
Companies E, G, H and M. Company E being encamped at Fort Crockett, Galveston, and Companies G, H and M at Texas City. Major 
John A. Murtagh commanded the Field Hospital, and Captain P. L. Jones the Ambulance Company. 

The Aviation Squadron was ordered to Galveston from Augusta, Ga., Palm Beach, Fla., and College Park, Md. This squadron was in 
command of Captain C. D. Chandler, Signal Corps, and consisted of seven officers and twenty enlisted men. 
Camp at Texas City was soon established and the men were comfortably housed under canvas. 

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To supply the division with needed food, Captain Lorenzo D. Gasser, who had been ordered to Galveston to open a depot of supphes, 
was ordered to provide supphes for the troops at Texas City as well as those at Galveston. Soon after, Lieutenant Colonel George McK. 
Williamson was ordered here as depot quartermaster to succeed Captain Gasser, and soon after this order another order was issued from the 
Southern Department for the establishment of a base of supplies and port of embarkation at Galveston. Colonel S. VV. Miller, infantry, was 
sent here and opened headquarters in Galveston with a staff of officers. ' 

The Fifth Brigade, under command of Brigadier General Frederick A. Smith, was the first organization to get settled in camp and start 
to work at executing a program of maneuvers. The first practice marches were had March 3rd. This brigade comprised four regiments, as 
follows: Seventh Infantry, commanded by Colonel Daniel Cornman, from Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; Fourth Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant 
Colonel E. F. Taggart in the absence of Colonel William Paulding (who was en route from the Philippines to join his command), from Fort 
Crook, Neb., and Fort Snelling, Minn.; Nineteenth Infantry, commanded by Colonel Millard F. Waltz, from Fort Meade, S. D., Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kan., and Fort Sill, Okla.; Twenty-Eighth Infantry, commanded by Colonel E. H. Plummer, from Fort Snelling, Minn. 



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MAIOR GENERAL WILLIAM H. CARTER AND D1\IS10N STAFF. 




Litul. Col. William B. Banisler. chief surgeon; Maior A. \V. Brcwsler. inspector general; Col. Daniel E. McCorlhy, chid 

quarlemiasler : Major Gen. William H. Carter; Lieul. Col. James B. Houston, assistant quartermaster (paymaster). 

Col. Charles R. Noyes, chief of staff; Lieut. Col. Peyton C. March, adjutant general. 



rigadier General Clarence E. Eduards, 

commanding Sixth Brigade, and 

Maior David ]. Baker. Jr.. Adjutant. 




Top— Field Hospilal No. 3 \lainr lohn A. Murlai>h, Cminuindin: 



Field Bakery No. 2. 





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Top— Camp ol Elcvenlh Infanlry-Col. Arlhur Williams, Commanding Bollom— Camp of Eichlccnih Inlaniry— Col. Thos. F. Davis, C. 




Top— Rem. Camp of Twenly-second Inlanlry Col. D. .\. Fredericks. Commandine. Bollom— Real. Camp Twenly-Ihird Infantry— Co!. E. F. Glenn, Commandint\ 




Top-Real. Camp Twenty-sixth Infantry— Col. R. L. Bullard. Comniandinc Bollom-Reel. Camp Twenty-seventh Infantry-Col. R. N. Getty, Commandinc 




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TEXAS CITY, DIVISION HEADQUARTERS 

' I 'HE SELECTION of Texas City as the headquarters ot Major General WiUiam H. Carter, commander of the Second Division of the 
•'■ United States Army, and mobilization here of 7,000 of the 1 1,000 men and officers now encamped on the Gulf Coast, has brought the 
commumry into the limelight and has given rise to speculation as to its location and industries. Texas City is located on the mainland side of 
Galveston Bay, and here, through the expenditure of $5,000,000 in the construction of wharves and warehouses, a port business, starting with 
8,712 tons valued at $998,428 in 1904, has grown to 464,201 tons valued at $63,100,635 in 1912. During the same period the community 
has sprung from 200 to 4,000 people and is growing very rapidly. 

The ocean terminals are conceded to be the finest, from the standpoint of construction and freight handling methods, to be found south 
of New York. The dock and land warehouses, giving 613,000 square feet of floor space, are constructed of steel and concrete, affording mini- 
mum insurance rates, and many of them are equipped with floor conveyors and overhead cranes. Thirty feet of water to the Gulf of Mexico 
permits the entrance to Texas City's harbor of the large freight steamers in the Gulf trade, and during 1912 three hundred and ninety-six 
vessels arrived and departed. The two piers of the terminal system give 5,700 feet of water frontage, affording berthing room for fifteen ves- 
sels at one time. The thirty-five miles of terminal track, with storage room for 3, 1 80 cars, connect at Texas City Junction with the six trunk 
lines that enter Galveston over the Galveston County Causeway. 

Texas City is the southwestern distributing depot of the Davis Coal fa. Coke Company, Tufts &L Osborne, Crane fa. Company, Travis 
Glass Company, and of several importing concerns. Its principal industries are the $ 1 ,000,000 oil refinery of the Pierce-Fordyce Oil Asso- 
ciation, the Seaboard Compress and Warehouse Company, and the Hanak Contracting Company, builders of electrically operated freight 
handling machinery. 

Texas City boasts of electric lighting facilities, waterworks, sewerage, nine miles of shelled streets, and several miles of concrete curbs 
and cement sidewalks. An electric street railway with over fivo miles of track is being built, and modern P-.A-Y-E cars will be used. During 
the past four years the city has had a remarkable growth. .At this time much building activity is going on, both in the business and in the 
residence districts. The business blocks are, almost without exception, brick or concrete, while in the residence district bungalows pre- 
dominate. The growth is substantial and the population, exclusive of the troops, is about 4,500. 




Residence of H. B. Moore 




Residence of W. P. Tarpey 




rds'eye View of Texas Ciry Harbor 




Board of Tradf Buildinn. Temporary Quancrs ol Gen. Carter and Slalf. 
Home of Texas Cily Nalional Bank and of ihe Texas Cily Co. 




Malin Building 




Baldwin Building. Commercial Hotel. 




Harper Hotel. Livingston &. Ellis Buildii 




First National Bank Building 




Guaranty State Bank 




Southern Hotel 




Wolvin Public School 




Tubb Building. Home of Texas City Times. 




Kohfeldt Public School 




Residence of C. D. Gustavus 




Residence of F. \'. Davidson 




Residence of A. H. Dorv 





Concrete Grain Elevator, Capacity, 500,000 Bushels. 



Electric Light and Water Pl.iiiii 









Interior of Warehouse 
Showing Overhead Crane and Floor Conveyor 





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Dock Scene — Pier 10 





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End of Pier B Steamer Loading Cotton 




Loading for Foreign Ports 



MAR W 1913 




Motor Car 
Operating between Texas City and Texas City Junction- 
connecting with Steam Railroads and Interurban 




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